Chaourse
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | Aisne | |
Arrondissement | Vervins | |
Canton | Vervins | |
Community association | Portes de la Thiérache | |
Coordinates | 49 ° 42 ′ N , 4 ° 0 ′ E | |
height | 102-187 m | |
surface | 18.6 km 2 | |
Residents | 539 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 29 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 02340 | |
INSEE code | 02160 | |
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Chaourse is a French municipality with 539 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Aisne in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it belongs to the Arrondissement Vervins (since January 2017, until December 2016 part of the Arrondissement Laon ) and the canton Vervins (until 2015: Canton Rozoy-sur-Serre ).
geography
Chaourse is about 31 kilometers northeast of Laon on the Serre . Chaourse is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Vigneux-Hocquet in the north, Renneval in the northeast, Vincy-Reuil-et-Magny in the east, Montcornet in the southeast, La Ville-aux-Bois-lès-Dizy in the south, and Clermont-les-Fermes in the south and south-west, Montigny-le-Franc to the west and south-west and Agnicourt-et-Séchelles to the west.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
Residents | 783 | 769 | 629 | 551 | 522 | 522 | 541 | 526 |
Source: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Saint-Martin church from the 13th century, monument historique since 1921
Roman finds
The Chaourse Treasure , an important Gallo-Roman hoard discovered in 1883 , is now kept in the British Museum in London .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Description of the treasure: Henry Beauchamp Walters : Catalog of the Silver Plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum. British Museum, London 1921, pp. 38–46 and panels XXIII – XXX.